Kennedy Brewer spent 13 years behind bars seven on death row for the rape and murder of a 3-year-old girl. On February 15, 2008, he became the 127th death row inmate in the United States exonerated and released from prison.
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ErvingGoffman.Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identities (Prentice Hall, 1963). The classic sociological analysis of stigma.
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AdrianGrounds.“Psychological Consequences of Wrongful Conviction and Imprisonment,”Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice (2004) 46: 165–182. Examines psychiatric assessment information for 18 British exonerees.
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RobertJay Lifton.“History of Trauma,” in Beyond Invisible Walls, JacobD. LindyRobertJay Lifton, eds. (Brunner-Routledge, 2001). Introduces Lifton's concept of “sustained catastrophe.”
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MichaelL. RadeletHugoAdam BedauConstanceE. Putnam.In Spite of Innocence (Northeastern University Press, 1992). The seminal work on wrongful conviction of the innocent.
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JanetRobertsElizabethStanton.“A Long Road Back After Exoneration, and Justice Is Slow to Make Amends,”The New York Times (November 25, 2007). Multi-media presentation of interviews with more than 100 DNA exonerees.
